MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Camille Delaney-McNeil talks about using innovation to impact community

- Aaron Dworkin

Steff Signer: Cabinet Music XI

- Jan Herman

“A Service to the Nation” — The University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra Tours South Africa

- Joe Horowitz

Erin Harkey shares the critical role the arts play in society

- Aaron Dworkin

Opera Philadelphia, $11 tickets, and a predictable outcome

- Hannah Grannemann


 

DANCE

In Kenyan Refugee Camp, Kids Turn To African Dance As Funding Cuts Drain Everything Else

- AP

Chicago’s Contemporary Dance Hub, Links Hall, Throws Itself A Marathon Goodbye Party

- WBEZ (Chicago)

A Brief Travel Guide To Traditional Dance On Three Continents

- Vogue

Is Removing Cultural Appropriation From “La Bayadère” Even Possible? This Company’s Giving It A Try

- Gramilano (Milan)

An Underground Ballet Revival In Ukraine Gives Relief From Relentless War

- Globe and Mail

IDEAS

The Perils Of Thinking That Better Design Will Fix Things

- The Atlantic

So Just Why Did Prehistoric Humans Decide To “Start” Civilization?

- Big Think

Evidence Of Cognitive Decline After Using AI

- The New Yorker

Why So We Find Silences In Conversations So… Awkward?

- Aeon

About 100 Years Ago The World Was Being Remade By Technolgy. There Was Fear. Sound Familiar?

- Novum

The Future Of Human Creativity With AI

- Entrepreneur

A Worry: Will Young People Lose Thinking Skills Because Of AI?

- The Wall Street Journal

Behavioral: Why We’re Addicted To Work

- 3 Quarks Daily

Does Choice Make You Free? (The Costs Of Choosing)

- The Atlantic

Our Technologies Keep Trying To Give Us “Experiences.” They’re Fake.

- The Point

What Jaws Did To, And Also For, Sharks

- The New York Times

Lessons From The Apocalypse

- Fast Company

Instead Of Replacing Journalists, Can Targeted AI Use Help Indie News Sites Get Better?

- Nieman Lab



 

ISSUES

Portland, In A Budget Crunch, Manages To Find Some Money For Hard-Hit Arts Groups

- Oregon ArtsWatch

Deaths Of A Thousand Cuts: Florida Gives Larger Grants To Far Fewer Arts Organizations

- Tallahassee Democrat

Australia’s Largest State Is Laying Off One-Quarter Of Its Arts Agency’s Staff

- The Sydney Morning Herald

Strike Two: Judge Rules That Meta’s AI Didn’t Infringe On Writers’ Copyright

- Wired

A New International Arts Festival At A Superfund Site In Brooklyn

- The New York Times

A Fire Destroyed Brazil’s National Museum. How Do You Rebuild That History?

- The New York Times

Anthropic Wins Major Copyright Case: AI Training Is Fair Use

- Wired

What Are “Italian Brain Rot Animals” And Why Are Young Adults Obsessed With Them?

- The Guardian

Seattle Festival Canceled Over Concerns About ICE

- Seattle Times

New Hampshire Lawmakers Are Still Trying To Cut State Arts Budget To $1

- The New York Times

How Korean Culture Became A Worldwide Phenom

- The New York Times

New AI Arts Residencies Intend To Promote Artists Working In AI

- The Verge

An Ambitious Seattle Artist Housing Initiative Falters

- Seattle Times

Author Kaveh Akbar Reflects On Making Art During War

- NPR



 

MEDIA

Spielberg Says He’ll Never Retire

- The Guardian (UK)

Cutting Public Media Funding Means Rural Stations Closing. Here’s What That Means In Louisiana

- CBS News

One Of Bollywood’s Biggest Blockbusters Ever Is Back After 50 Years — With A New Ending

- BBC

KQED, San Francisco Public Radio/TV, Faces Big Deficit, Buyouts, Possible Layoffs

- Radio Ink

Apple Makes A Big Bet On Brad Pitt Movie

- The Wall Street Journal

A First: BBC Will Start Charging US Users To Access Content

- The Guardian

The End Of The Internet’s Business Model For Publishing

- The Atlantic

Are These The Best Movies Of The 21st Century So Far?

- The New York Times

“South Park” Creators Accuse Paramount Global’s Buyer Of Illegally Meddling In $2.5 Billion Extension Deal

- Bloomberg (Yahoo!)

Even C-SPAN Is Getting Hammered By Viewers’ Switch From Cable To Streaming

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)



 

MUSIC

New Yorkers Explain Why They Went To See The New York Phil In Queens

- The New York Times

Filling The New LACMA With Music

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

One Of The World’s First Gay Anthems Was Born 100 Years Ago In Chicago

- BBC

Warning: Welsh Traditional Folk Music Could Die Out Within A Generation

- BBC

Even The Most Resourceful Musicians Are Failing To Make A Living

- The Walrus

Philharmonia Baroque, US’s Only Full-Time Period-Instrument Orchestra, Names Its Next Music Director

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Over Two Dozen Unknown Works By Satie Appear On New Recording

- The Guardian

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krystian Zimerman And New York Phil Tour South Korea This Week

- The Korea Herald

Today’s Composers Have More Sounds Than Ever Before To Choose From

- Gramophone

Germany’s Thriving Small-Opera-House Ecosystem

- The New York Times

One Man Has Been Tuning Pianos In The Sydney Opera House For Fifty Years

- BBC

David Finckel And Wu Han Will Step Down From Their Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo

- The Strad

English National Opera’s Next Music Director Will Also Take Helm At New Zealand Symphony

- Limelight (Australia)



 

PEOPLE

Diana Oh, Passionate Advocate For Queer Theatre, Has Died At 38

- The New York Times

A Former Museum Director’s Cautionary Tale About Intimidation And Coercion

- Hyperallergic

Composer Lalo Schifrin, Who Wrote Iconic “Mission: Impossible” Theme, Has Died At 93

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Bill Moyers, Dean Of American Public TV Journalism, Dead At 91

- AP

Léon Krier, New Urbanist Architect Who Designed King Charles’s Model Town, Has Died At 79

- The Guardian

1960s Teen Idol Bobby Sherman Is Dead At 81

- AP

The Man Who Became History-Keeper Of A Legendary Dance Mecca

- The New York Times

Sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, Master of The Bronze Sphere, Is Dead At 98

- AP

Actor Jay Ellis Found Inspiration In Colson Whitehead’s Books

- The New York Times

Marlee Matlin Won An Oscar, But Had To Wait Years For More Good Work In Hollywood

- The Guardian (UK)



 

THEATRE

How Manhattan Theatre Club Was Born

- American Theatre

After 53 Years, Manhattan Theater Club Director Lynne Meadow Is Retiring

- The New York Times

Jamie Lloyd, The Unorthodox Director Storming The West End And Broadway

- The Guardian

Is Podcast Fiction The New Fringe Theatre?

- ArtsHub

American Conservatory Theater Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein Is Moving To Houston’s Alley Theatre

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

How A Library Of Congress Specialist Wooed Stephen Sondheim To Donate His Papers

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” Is Pretty Much Always Timely. Why Isn’t It Staged More Often?

- The Guardian

Athens’ Ancient Outdoor Theatre Gives Its Final Season Before Three-Year Renovation

- AP

NYC Police Cancel Theatre Program Meant To Connect Community

- The New York Times

High-Tech Storytelling Is All Over Broadway These Days

- The New York Times



 

VISUAL

Can This Small Museum In England Raise Enough Money To Buy Turner’s First Known Oil Painting?

- BBC

Financially-Troubled Vancouver Art Gallery Will Cut A Third Of Its Staff

- Vancouver Sun

Chinese Graphic Artists Feeling The Pain Of AI “Averaging” Effect

- The Verge

There Are Dozens Of Nonprofits Concerned With Frank Lloyd Wright. Only One Helps Out People Who Live In Wright Houses.

- The New York Times

What Was Van Gogh’s Thing For Sunflowers About? And He Was Hardly The Only Artist Drawn To Them.

- BBC

Britain’s Tate Galleries Launch Campaign For US-Style Endowment

- Press Association UK (Yahoo!)

Jeff Koons’ Giant Topiary Will Anchor New LACMA

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

This Year’s Venice Architecture Biennale Focuses On Building For A Changing Planet

- Bloomberg

After Months Of Domestic Pressure, Italy’s Government Slashes VAT On Art By 77%

- ARTnews

Spain’s Supreme Court Orders Franco’s Heirs To Return Medieval Statues To Santiago De Compostela

- ARTnews

Norman Foster To Design Translucent Bridge For Queen Elizabeth Memorial

- The Guardian

Send In The Saints: Notre Dame Statues To Be Returned

- The Guardian

Man Trips, Tears Hole In 17th Century Painting In An Uffizi Gallery

- Hyperallergic

Iran Moves Cultural Treasures To Safety

- ARTnews

MIT Student Creates New Way To Restore Art Work

- Ars Technica

Lessons About The Market At This Year’s ArtBasel

- The Art Newspaper

Climate Change Activists Fling Pink Paint On A Star Picasso Painting In Montreal

- The Art Newspaper

A New Proposal For The US At The Venice Biennale Is, Uh, Not Great

- Hyperallergic



 

WORDS

The San Francisco Bookstores Removing JK Rowling From Their Shelves

- LitHub

After Five Years Closed, Johannesburg’s Flagship Public Library Finally Reopens

- The Christian Science Monitor

A Test: Measuring Student Writing Against Those Who Use ChatGPT — It Doesn’t End Well

- LitHub

Politicizing The Library Of Congress Is Defacing A National Treasure

- Washington Post

Another Goodreads Problem: Authors Hit With Negative Reviews Before Anyone Gets Review Copies

- The Bookseller (UK)

The Real Reason Why Men Should Read Fiction

- The Atlantic (MSN)

FanFic Writers Battle Against A Deluge Of AI Slop

- The Verge

There’s A Boom In Translated Fiction. A New Prize Aims To Give A Boost To Translated Poetry

- The Guardian

Alison Bechdel Explains Why Her New Graphic Novel Isn’t The Memoir She Had Planned

- Slate

Teachers: How AI Deepens Our Students’ Ability To Write

- Education Week

Finland’s Public Libraries Are Flourishing (There’s A Reason)

- Anonymous

The Days When Charles Dickens Was Known As Boz

- LitHub